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Former Walmart U.S. CEO Crash Lands A Plane

"Bill Simon, the former U.S. CEO of Walmart, crash-landed a single-engine plane in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Tuesday. He and his two passengers survived a parachute landing. The Fayetteville police reported that the plane experienced oil pressure problems during its flight from Bentonville Municipal Airport to Waco, Texas."

Bill Simon, who left Walmart last year, safely ditched the plane on a Fayetteville, Ark., highway shortly after take off from Walmart's headquarters town of Bentonville, using an emergency parachute system to slow it down following a mechanical failure. He, his passengers and the driver of a truck they hit sustained only minor injuries.

"Bill Simon, the former U.S. CEO of Walmart, crash-landed a single-engine plane in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Tuesday. He and his two passengers survived a parachute landing. The Fayetteville police reported that the plane experienced oil pressure problems during its flight from Bentonville Municipal Airport to Waco, Texas."